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Women in Classical Music Sunday, May 22, 2011, 2:30 PM – Dominican University Monday, May 23, 2011, 7:30 PM – Symphony Center Women in Classical Music Chicago Sinfonietta Paul Freeman, Music Director and Conductor Mei-Ann Chen, Conductor and Music Director Designate blue cathedral .........................................................................................................................Jennifer Higdon Symphony No.1; Three Movements for Orchestra .............................................Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Movement III An American Concerto ........................................................................................................Gwyneth Walker Elena Urioste, violin I. A Burst of Energy II. A Reflection III. Another Stroll Intermission Divertimento Notte blu (for String Orchestra and friends) .............................................Renée Baker Renée Baker, conductor Mwata Bowden, baritone sax David Boykin, tenor sax Nicole Mitchell, flute Bruce Nelson, vibes Teddy Rankin-Parker, cello Karl EH Seigfried, bass 1. Incessant Chatter 7. Microcosmic Shuffle 2. Midnight Holla 8. Tasty Folly 3. Wheels Away 9. So hard you cry 4. Soft Fudge Chatting 10. Slow awake 5. Elephant at the Zoo 11. Alarm 6. Dancing Dream Scherzo capriccioso, op.66 ................................................................................................Antonín Dvořák Danzas Del Ballet Estancia, op.8 .................................................................................. Alberto Ginastera I. Los trabajadores agricolas Lead Season Sponsor Lead Media Sponsor Lead Concert Sponsor Monday evening’s concert is being broadcast live on WFMT 98.7 and is exclusively sponsored by Fifth Third Bank chicagosinfonietta.org facebook.com/chicagosinfonietta twitter.com/chi_sinfonietta Chicago Sinfonietta 1 T:4.25” THE MAESTRO’S FINAL SEASON A Message from Paul Freeman How does one say goodbye to dear friends, colleagues, and supporters after twenty-four wonderful years? Reluctantly, but with a great sense of gratitude, love, and affection. To you, Chicago Sinfonietta board, staff members, and Friends Group members, thanks for being a critical part of the team that brought our con- certs and educational programs to the people of Chicago, River Forest, and surrounding areas. I have truly enjoyed working with you. Your dedication to the mission of the Sinfonietta has inspired me time The things we do for T:4.065” and time again. I know the future of the orchestra is assured as long as people like you are involved. To you, Chicago Sinfonietta musicians, I want to A strong community fosters friendship, kindness, brotherhood, thank you for the years of great music making we have shared and for your loyal support of and well-being. More importantly, we can achieve more by the orchestra. Together we have proved that it takes all of the voices of a community to make working together. That’s why we’re proud to support the great music. You are in very good hands with Mei-Ann Chen and I look forward to hearing of all of your great accomplishments to come! Chicago Sinfonietta. It takes a lot to reach your dreams, and we’ll do our best to help you achieve them. To you, our loyal audience members and generous donors, words can’t adequately describe how grateful I am to each one of you for your many years of support and encouragement. Fifth Third Bank proudly supports Without you there simply is no orchestra. You have fearlessly joined me in this eclectic musi- cal journey and encouraged us to explore types of music that few orchestras ever tackle. the Chicago Sinfonietta. Thank you for coming year after year and for making the dream of an orchestra dedicated to inclusion and innovation a reality. I want to extend a special commendation and apprecia- 53.com Fifth Third Bank, Member FDIC. tion to our Executive Director Jim Hirsch who has supported this dream year after year. Finally, I want to thank my wife Cornelia and all of the members of my family who have stood by me throughout this journey. I am looking forward to spending much more time with them. I am excited about my new role with the Chicago Sinfonietta and look forward to seeing you all in the years to come. 3904_Practice_425x4065.indd Live: 3.75” x 3.565” Project Manager: Sue Howe Black Client: FTB Trim: 4.25” x 4.065” Studio Artist: Troy Thompson Ad Number: 3904 Bleed: 4.25” x 4.065” Account Manager: InDesign CS5 Scale: 1”=1” Art Director: Date: 4-27-2011 11:19 AM Printed: None Copy Writer: A Message from Mei-Ann Chan Page: 1 of 1 Final Output At: 100% Previous User: freelance Publication(s): Chicago Sinfonietta Document Path: ...tosh HD:Users:tthompson:Documents:Troy:Days:List:FTB:042711_Affiliate Request:3904_Practice_425x4065.indd I am honored to be sharing the podium with Maestro Paul Freeman on this, his final subscription Material Close Date: 4/28/11 Used Fonts: Gotham (Book, Medium), GothamCondensed (Book) Ins ertion Date: 4/28/11 Linked Content: 77817651_20_BW.tif (1164 ppi; 25.76%), 53_1c w-tag-GothamBOOK.eps (14.3%), Practice.tif (2158 ppi; 37.07%) concert with the Chicago Sinfonietta. I know that a number of you have been affiliated with the Notes: Original File: 3105 orchestra since its founding in 1987 and that this concert provides a time to celebrate his life and career. But it is also a time to reflect on how much we will miss this remarkable man. Since being appointed as Maestro Freeman’s successor last summer I have gotten to know him much better and have come to appreciate what many of you have known for years. He is a superbly gracious and generous person. His assistance in planning my inaugural season has been so very helpful, and he will continue to be a treasured partner in plotting the direc- tion of the orchestra in the future. I am committed to Paul’s vision for this orchestra, and to its important and unique mission. I hope you share my excitement about the 2011-2012 Season. I look forward to seeing you next fall! Get the latest headlines and listen on your smart phone with iPhone and Android apps. IT’S MORE THAN JUST TALK 2 Chicago Sinfonietta PROGRAM NOTES PROGR A M ( c o n t.) The final Chicago Sinfonietta concert the corridor amongst giant crystal of knowledge and of sharing and of world premiere recording of the piece. of the 2010-2011 Season has turned pillars, moving in a contemplative that song called life. Walker’s concerto evokes that iconic out to be an especially momentous oc- stance. The stained glass windows’ “American” sound partly through a casion. In keeping with Maestro Paul figures would start moving with One of America’s foremost compos- focus on the intervals of fourths and Freeman’s quest for inclusiveness and song, singing a heavenly music. The ers, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was the first fifths, much like composers including recognition for all people who make listener would float down the aisle, woman to receive the coveted Pulitzer Aaron Copland. In addition, the work classical music, Women in Classical slowly moving upward at first and Prize in Music. The third movement of is vigorously rhythmic, melodically Music was conceived to highlight the then progressing at a quicker pace, the history-making piece which earned direct, and harmonically clear. Walker’s vital contributions of women to the rising towards an immense ceiling her that distinction, Symphony No. 1, is score brims with references to numer- field. As such, it was slated from the which would open to the sky…as heard this evening. Widely considered ous American musical idioms including beginning to be co-led by Mei-Ann this journey progressed, the speed one of her most characteristic works, rock, folk, and jazz, but avoids dissolv- Chen, one of the world’s fastest rising of the traveler would increase, Symphony No. 1 spins out a marvel- ing into a mash-up of styles. She seems women conductors. Of course, in the rushing forward and upward. I ous and varied piece from the motifs to have listened deeply to each of these intervening year and a half, Maestro wanted to create the sensation of heard in the opening few bars of music. idioms and distilled them into her own Chen was selected to be the Orches- contemplation and quiet peace at Zwilich includes the following note distinctive voice. tra’s next Music Director. This concert, the beginning, moving towards the with her score: then, represents both a fulfillment of feeling of celebration and ecstatic The opening of the concerto “A Burst Paul Freeman’s vision and a symbolic expansion of the soul, all the while Symphony No. 1 grew out of several of Energy” explores rock-and-roll riffs continuation of his legacy. singing along with that heavenly of my most central music concerns. and rhythms. The music centers on D music. First, I have long been interested major and is filled with those wide- The evening begins with Jennifer Hig- in the elaboration of large-scale open intervals of fourths and fifths, don’s blue cathedral. Commissioned I began writing this piece at a works from the initial material. This evoking the power chords of an electric and premiered at the Curtis Institute of unique juncture in my life and ‘organic’ approach to musical form guitar. Meanwhile brief solos are traded Music in 2000, it is a work of contem- found myself pondering the ques- fascinates me both in the develop- between the soloist and individual plation. With characteristic passion tion of what makes a life. The recent ment of the material and in the members of the orchestra. These trades and deft skill at orchestration, Higdon’s loss of my younger brother, Andrew fashioning of a musical idea that of melodic licks are an earmark of jazz meditation on the transitions we Blue, made me reflect on the amaz- contains the ‘seeds of the work to and fit well with the concerto form. In experience in life is apt for a program ing journeys that we all make in our follow.’ keeping with a traditional concerto where the baton is passed from one lives, crossing paths with so many form, the second movement is slow Music Director to the next.
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